Campaign travel logs
November 3-25, 2008 The initial ANITA team arrived the first week of November, and the gondola build was in full swing led by Dana Braun, Brian Hill and Christian Miki by the 2nd week. The major structure of the gondola was all put together by Nov. 12 or so, but lots of details kept the … Read more →
November 1-15, 2006 The initial ANITA team arrived the first week of November, and the gondola build was in full swing by the 2nd week, and nearing completion at the end of that week. The major efforts have been focused on painting & silver -taping for thermal control, and starting the channel calibrations which will … Read more →
November 13, 2003 Well I’m off again for another trip to Antarctica to fly a balloon. 2 years ago I traveled down to participate in the flight of the TIGER payload on what turned out to be a record-setting 31.8 day flight. With a little luck we might break that record this year. This year … Read more →